Famous quotes containing the words rare and/or earth:
“If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness—calling their denial knowledge.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)